On 2003-04-26 at 1506.31 +0200, Branko Collin typed this: > On 26 Apr 2003, at 14:18, Sven Neumann wrote: > > "Branko Collin" <collin@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > > > It would be nice to give the data shipped with GIMP an > > > > overhaul before we ship the next version. > > > > > > What do you mean by 'overhaul'? > > > > I mean that it would be nice if someone would take the time to go > > through the data, check if things should be added, removed, reordered, > > renamed, whatever. > > TML's 1.2.2 Windows build came with a file called helentr.txt that > carried the following statement: > > "All patterns were made by Helen Triantafillou. > http://members.designheaven.com/~helentr/ > > You may use them in any way you like. Enjoy!" > > This file lists 16 patterns. > > Of the files I currently see in my local CVS directory of GIMP HEAD > (last updated 3 Feb 2003), I see 56 pattern files. Of these, only > four have the same name as the Triantafillou files, and none of them > the same file size: > > bark.pat, brick.pat, paper.pat, wood1.pat. > > So unless Elliot Lee can tell us otherwise, I think we should rely on > Kelly Martin's memory and assume we do not necessarily have a license > to redistribute these image files. > > Of course, it is possible we do not need a license; the works may be > too small to deserve copyright protection. IANAL, however. > > I'll look into this further. > what about stripping all but a few essential and educational patterns from the gimp source; where essential would mean those used by the plug-ins that come with the gimp source and where educational might be a sample tile that has an associated tutorial somewhere accessible. then, at the same location as the tutorial on how to make the tile included in the source, make available packages of themed patterns and a place to contribute packages. this way, people could personalize gimp for their needs and at the same time, actually help define a good user package. there are so many patterns in gimp that i don't use. i might actually use them, if i saw them on a web page rather than in the selector window; especially if i got some insight to the history of the pattern and such. for instance, i saw one of my favorite tiles on one of my heros web pages recently: http://www.nuclecu.unam.mx/~federico/gimp/ i would have been using it more often, if i knew federico had liked it as well. all this information is useless packed into the gimp source, imo, that is what a web site is for. if we use debian as a model, i like the way they make me think i am getting what i want; it would be nice to set up a gimpy way to do that with the resources. > > Especially the brushes we ship need some > > maintainance. Lots of them could be converted from pixmap brushes to > > parametric (generated) brushes. This would allow to edit them (or > > rather edit a duplicate). > > And this too. > <ditto> <resource> <other urls /> </resource> </ditto> carol
